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SUMMARY:Neural representation of complex space - Professor Kate Jeffery\,I
 nstitute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology
  Division of Psychology and Language Sciences\, University College London
DTSTART:20150227T150000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:How do our brains construct a representation of large-scale sp
 ace\, to be used in wayfinding? The study of single neurons in rodents has
  been enormously useful in helping answer this question for simple\, two-d
 imensional environments. However\, the real world is neither simple nor tw
 o-dimensional. In this talk I will focus on recent studies exploring how s
 patial neurons may collaborate in representing three-dimensional and compl
 ex spaces.\n\nBiography:\nKate Jeffery is Professor of Behavioural Neurosc
 ience in the Department of Experimental Psychology\, University College Lo
 ndon. A medical graduate\, she began her neuroscience career in the labora
 tories of Cliff Abraham and Richard Morris\, researching synaptic plastici
 ty and its relationship to learning and memory. From there she undertook a
  postdoc with John O’Keefe at University College London\, learning to st
 udy spatially sensitive neurons at the single-cell level\, after which she
  took up a lectureship across the road in the Division of Psychology\, whe
 re she has been ever since and where she continues to study how neural enc
 oding is related to spatial cognition. In 2006 she founded the Institute o
 f Behavioural Neuroscience (IBN)\, a group comprising several animal resea
 rchers who use physiological methods to study cognition. Between 2010 and 
 2013 she was head of the Research Department of Cognitive\, Perceptual and
  Brain Sciences (now Experimental Psychology)\, after which she stepped do
 wn to concentrate more fully on research\, recently securing a Wellcome In
 vestigator Award to conduct a five-year study of how the spatially sensiti
 ve neurons encode complex spaces. In addition to research she is also co-d
 irector\, with her husband Jim Donnett\, of the electrophysiology instrume
 ntation company Axona Ltd. 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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